Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
We are witnessing the tragic consequences of settler colonialism and capitalism in real time. Native Hawaiians are forced to pay the price of climate change, while the US military that occupies their land is also the world's largest polluter.
Protesters smeared paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture in the National Gallery of Art in D.C. to bring attention to the climate crisis and demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency. https://t.co/FWiuFqJzId
#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin & moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she witnessed a rapid increase in Hitler's popularity. 1/12
“All labor has dignity … it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages.”
Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday